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  • noun Person doing kneecapping.

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Examples

  • Nice to see Charles Clarke out, the evil old kneecapper.

    Ruralshire Election Results SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • For those who aren't familiar with the case, in a nutshell, during the 2000 campaign season when Siegelman, a popular statewide Dem refused to play the Southern Dixiecrat role and back the word-mugging Texas Governor and would-be President-elect during the endorsement and post-November hanging-chad phase — and vociferously came out against Bush, he made an enemy of the administration and its heavily-wattled kneecapper Karl Rove.

    Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (D) Released On Appeal 2008

  • For those who aren't familiar with the case, in a nutshell, during the 2000 campaign season when Siegelman, a popular statewide Dem refused to play the Southern Dixiecrat role and back the word-mugging Texas Governor and would-be President-elect during the endorsement and post-November hanging-chad phase — and vociferously came out against Bush, he made an enemy of the administration and its heavily-wattled kneecapper Karl Rove.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • They disliked Nixon because Nixon was a paranoid, self-pitying kneecapper who surrounded himself with obsequious toadies, yes men and dirty-tricks artists.

    Sunday Roundup 2009

  • Frank Luntz, Republican kneecapper, gets to provide "immediate public feedback" on the Democratic candidates (and later, on September 27th, on the Republican ones) following the debate?

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • But you fail to understand I don't have to vote for the kneecapper.

    Obama Gets Into Verbal Tussle With Reporter 2009

  • But you fail to understand I don't have to vote for the kneecapper.

    Obama Gets Into Verbal Tussle With Reporter 2009

  • He's also a strategic kneecapper who doesn't mind attacking viciously -- just ask John McCain, who weathered a Rove-designed assault in South Carolina.

    Leader Of The Pack 2008

  • Ovechkin, at 24, is the most captivating talent in the game, a stone-cold kneecapper with a safecracker's touch.

    SI.com 2010

  • As for the hulking kneecapper in the leather jacket hanging about in the rear -- he's probably just a moonlighting investment banker or AIG insurance broker ...

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

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